Interpreting Crisis | The Worshipper's Thought of the Day

Have you ever considered that all change is a crisis?  We tend to think of a crisis as being something very dramatic, but that's not necessarily the case.  According to Dr. Myles Munroe (in his teaching "Kingdom Strategy for Changing Times"), a crisis is a change in the environment that warrants a new, unscheduled approach to its response.  And for clarification purposes, there are two types of crises: internal and external.  Internal crisis is self-produced, whereas external crisis results from changes we cannot control.

It's very important how we see crises because how we think is more important than what's happening around us.  While we may not be able to control the crisis, we can control our minds and how we think about crisis.  Therefore, as Kingdom citizens, we must exercise what is called "controlled perception" because how we think determines how we interpret crisis.  The basic idea behind controlled perception is that whatever we call something is actually what it becomes to us.  For example, instead of calling the crisis a problem, call it an opportunity to grow.  Whatever we perceive a thing to be actually controls our response to it.  Interesting, right?  Because when you think about it, the situation wins when our thoughts become the victim of our circumstances.

As mentioned before, determine to see crises as an opportunity for growth.  If the truth be told, we don't think in good times.  When things are going well with us, we're mentally on cruise control; and as creatures of habit, we just go with the flow.  But check this out: have you ever thought how this may be why GOD allows challenges to come our way?  Crisis produces creativity.  We've all heard it before: "Necessity is the mother of invention."  Furthermore, the human brain was designed to have demands placed upon it.  GOD will allow challenges to come our way to create demands that reveal our creativity.  Crisis then reveals our ability to respond innovatively to changes in our environment.

Understand, friends, that we never grow in good times.  So why get upset when times aren't so good?  Embrace the undesirable season for what it truly is--an opportunity for growth.  And let's make sure we're found capitalizing on the opportunity instead of sulking and complaining about it.  One thing crisis will do, if nothing else, is reveal true leadership and expose the fake leaders.  We can either rise to the occasion or let it be revealed that we weren't whom we claimed to be.  Crisis is no respecter of persons, titles, socioeconomic status, spiritual maturity, etc. Bible says the rain falls on the just as well as the unjust (Matthew 5:45).

In conclusion, situations usually come into our lives to introduce us to a person we never knew was living inside of us.  Crisis causes us to think thoughts we've never before thought in order to innovatively respond to the changes in our environments. So, in order to enjoy our lives, we must organize them in such a way that we're NEVER SURPRISED by change because we're always prepared for it.  Live expecting change.  Don't be the typical creature of habit who's living in cruise control.  If we prepare for things to change, we'll see a dramatic difference in how we perceive and respond to crisis.